QUALITY EVALUATION OF FAECAL SLUDGEBASED BIOSOLIDS AND CO-COMPOST IN INDIA TO ASCERTAIN THEIR REUSE AND RESOURCE RECOVERY POTENTIAL

India is in the midst of an urban sanitation evolution, where conventional systems of water-based sewerage, designed to transport faecal material from homes through pipes to sewage treatment plants, is being replaced. The paradigm shift is towards non-sewered sanitation, where household faecal material is transported to treatment facilities — where this human waste is treated in either designed faecal sludge treatment plants (FSTPs) or in the conventional sewage treatment plants, through co-treatment.